Student Research Opportunities
I am always looking for undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in data science, web services, and complex systems development as thesis topic. If listed topics does not interest you, I would be willing to work with you on a research topic of your interest as long as it is within realm of information systems.
Read research projects listed on the sidebar to get an idea on types of research problems that interests me. I strongly suggest reading listed articles to get familiarized with the problem. Please note that I do not have any funds to provide research assistantships.
I occasionally have suitable implementation projects from local community partners. Please note that these are not capstone projects. These projects would involve researching to improve processes and technologies relevant to the community partner organization.
If you are interested in working with me, send an email to schedule an appointment. During your first meeting, be prepared to discuss about your research interests and why you are passionate about it.
Student Supervision
Undergraduates
Undergraduate Honor Capstone Project Supervision
- Jacie Ankrom (Spring 2022) - The purpose of this project was to create a web application for the nonprofit Presbyterian Social Ministries. The web application has features for community and organizations to place orders of free clothes from Presbyterian Social Ministries, and provisions for staffmembers to process orders received and manage inventory.
- Uche Onyibe (Fall 2018) - The goal of the project is to design and develop a text mining application to mine non-profit organizations (NPO) annual reports. The mined data will provide us insights into the NPOs decision-making process; what affects those decisions such as technology, finances, etc.; impacts produced by the NPOs; and much more.
- Elizabeth Moreno (Spring 2017) - The goal of the project was to design and develop a dashboard application for Beaver Street Fisheries to optimize inventory in supply chain management such that peak revenue is reached. She worked on this project in collaboration with feature[23], a Jacksonville-based software engineering firm.
Graduates
M.S Thesis Chair
- Jacob M. Koza (Spring 2019). Active Analytics: Suggesting Navigational Links to Users Based on Temporal Analytics Data. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Adetunji A. Olunuga (Spring 2019). Profile Analysis of Mobile Application Security. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Christopher Travis LaValley (Summer 2018). Holistic Model of Website Design Elements that Influence Trustworthiness. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Joshua M. Joiner (Spring 2018). Automating CIRI Ratings of Human Rights Reports Using Gate. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Lucas Coffey (Spring 2018). Assessing Ratio-based Fatigue Indexes using a Single Channel EEG. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Dishi Shrivastava (Fall 2017). The Impact of Social Presence and User Experience on Gender Sensitive E-Tail Websites. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Mareh F. Al-Sammarraie (Summer 2017). An Empirical Investigation of Collaborative Web Search Tool on Novice's Query Behavior. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Hibah A. Khalil (Spring 2017). The Role of the Quality of a Website in Consumer Perception. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Doaa H. Gamal (Spring 2017). A Social Networks Influence Analysis. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - William R. Carle II (Spring 2016). Active Analytics: Adapting Web Pages Automatically Based on Analytics Data. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Mwaka Mahanga (Spring 2015). Unknown Exception Handling Tool Using Humans as Agents. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Britto Arockiasamy (Fall 2014). Trustworthiness of web services. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Chirag N. Rana (Spring 2014). Enabling One-Phase Commit (1PC) Protocol for Web Service Atomic Transaction (WS-AT). M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Enrique Caliz (Spring 2010). Analysis of WS-CDL Specifications using Colored Petri Nets. M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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M.S Thesis Committee Member
- Lucas W. Welch (Spring 2022). Measuring Vegetation Density in Marsh Grass Photographs Using Convolutional Neural Networks. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Mohammed Salman Khan (Spring 2019). A Topic Modeling approach for Code Clone Detection. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Katharine C. Brown (Fall 2018). A Consideration of Mason’s Ethical Framework: The Importance of PAPA Factors in the 21st Century: A Seven-Year Study. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Nathan Wheeler (Fall 2018). On the Effectiveness of an IOT - FOG - Cloud Architecture for a Real-World Application. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Larry D. Snedden (Fall 2017). Improving Search Ranking Using a Composite Scoring Approach. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Jason Frier (Spring 2017). Genetic Algorithms as a Viable Method of Obtaining Branch Coverage. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Chanchal Khatwani (Spring 2017). Security Analysis of ECC Based Protocols. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Priyanka Dhoopa Harish (Fall 2015). Towards Designing Energy-Efficient Secured Hashes. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Neha Vilas Soni (Summer 2015). An Empirical Performance Analysis of IaaS Clouds with Cloudstone Web 2.0 Benchmarking Tool. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Jeffrey B. Gouge (Summer 2015). A Targeted Denial of Service (DOS) Attack on Data Caching Networks. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Jaime Kaufman (Fall 2014). A Hybrid Approach to Music Recommendation: Exploiting Collaborative Music Tags and Acoustic Features. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Lucas M. Downard (Spring 2013). The Effect Overall Density Plays On Performance and Preference in a Windowed Environment. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Jim Littleton (Spring 2012). ColorDots: An Intersection Analysis Resistant Graphical Password Scheme for the Prevention of Shoulder-surfing Attack. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
Thesis DOI - Pavan Kumar Potti (Spring 2011). On The Design Web Services: SOAP vs. REST. M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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